$18 million in Series A funding was raised by Tavus, a generative AI video research business situated in San Francisco, California.
Scale Venture Partners led the financing, and Rory O’Driscoll became a director of the business. Participating companies included HubSpot, Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, and others.
With demand for its SaaS application coming from an expanding spectrum of use cases in banking, real estate, automotive, and healthcare, the business plans to use the money to continue accelerating product and model development and to boost sales in the enterprise and mid-market.
Tavus is a generative AI video research firm led by CEO Hassaan Raza, with the goal of enabling hyper-personalized video at scale. It offers cutting-edge AI models with the ability to create digital duplicates, lip sync, dub, text-to-video, and orchestrate tailored videos at scale. Users can access its technology through a web application, and developers can use APIs.
The Replica API is the first to be made available in beta. This API is currently available and allows the creation of text-to-video and photo-realistic digital copies.
There will soon be several more APIs available, such as:
● Lip Syncing API: Partial or complete lip synchronization.
● Dubbing API: Lip syncing and translation done seamlessly.
● Video Campaign API: Scalable, tailored video generation using video orchestration.
To enhance their video strategy, the company offers services to users in sales, marketing, product, online education, internal communications, and entertainment.
About Tavus:
Tavus was founded in 2020 with headqharters in Houston. Tavus is the video personalization platform with the power to take what you record once and automatically transform it into countless AI-generated videos, customized with unique voice variables to each customer to inspire loyalty and repeat conversions long after you hit send
